Poems, novels - these things belong to the nation, to the culture, and the people. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“The writer's business is to find the shape in unruly life and to serve her story.” — Dorothy Gallagher Copy Share Image
The effect produced by a short story depends almost entirely on its form. — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“Few of us ever acknowledge our sins in life, but in fiction, there must be redemption.” — Cl may Copy Share Image
When you're editing, you want to be the perfect appreciator, not another writer. — Joseph Kanon Copy Share Image
“first time I realized that a man was behind each one of the books. A man had to think them up. A… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I'm quite nosy. Somebody will be reading a book on a train, and I'll go: 'How is it? Is it any good?'… — Ophelia Lovibond Copy Share Image
“If I wish to write anything across the pages of your life that I do not wish to ascribe my name to,… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
The effect of reading literary non-fiction that matters most to me is when the coin drops, and this happens in the company… — Paul Fry Copy Share Image
I'm way more in my head acting than I am when I'm writing. So there's a weird love/hate on both ends. But… — Anders Holm Copy Share Image
“The walls were lined with shelves, and she insulated their nest with volumes collected over the years. Their decor was the many… — Kenneth Calhoun Copy Share Image
“If books had not bound together the experiences of former generations, the shackles of later generations in their forgetfulness would not have… — Mahbud Copy Share Image
“To be better equipped for the tests that the year will bring — read a textbook. To prepare for the tests that… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I have known I wanted to be a writer since I was seven-years-old. Seriously. In the second grade I wrote a 21-page… — Renee Watson Copy Share Image
I feel most myself when I'm reading, but by that I don't mean that I'm most comfortable when I'm reading. I feel… — Dan Chiasson Copy Share Image
Writing itself is one of the great, free human activities. There is scope for individuality, and elation, and discovery. In writing, for… — William Stafford Copy Share Image
“At heart, self-publishing is kind of like a bake sale. The end product does not need to resemble the one that comes… — D. C. Williams Copy Share Image
Literature, real literature, must not be gulped down like some potion which may be good for the heart or good for the… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
(The new boyfriend) knows I write every day for hours but has no idea that all I’m writing about is me. It… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
The makers of literature are those who have seen and felt the miraculous interestingness of the universe. If you have formed...literary taste...your… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
“These things matter. It’s tedious, I know. Any writer worth his weight in pulp would by now have set the hero along… — Gordon Highland Copy Share Image
The reader became the book; and summer night Was like the conscious being of the book. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
“Books for the masses are always bad-smelling books: the odour of little people cling to them.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Reading supplies bread for imagination to feed on and bones for it to chew on. — Alex Faickney Osborn Copy Share Image
There are seventy million books in American libraries, but the one you want is always out. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think it's harder - much harder - to be a good parent than to write a book. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“Two libriomancers had been disciplined for trying to get an early copy of the last Harry Potter book.” — Jim C. Hines Copy Share Image
“If one think he can live without writing, perhaps he should not write at all.” — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
My idea of a good novel was one you made enough money out of to buy a greenhouse. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It could be argued that every age gets the comfort savagery writer it deserves. — Will Self Copy Share Image
Life is a book, you can't start a new chapter if you keep rereading the last. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The book may be garbage, but if it weighs in at a kilo or more, I stand before its author in awe. — Arthur Smith Copy Share Image
